- Cosmo Randazzo (24′) was selected to be the undergraduate speaker at the commencement for the college of engineering! Congratulations Cosmo! Best of luck with your speech
April 2024 – Greg Manoukian was awarded the prestigious Koerner Family Foundation Fellowship awarded to engineering PhD students studying issues eminent in the USA. Congratulations Greg! Enjoy your trip to Japan!
- Jason’s yearly Physics of Solar Cells course got to take a field trip to the Yards Brewery rooftop solar array for a lesson in applied engineering and sustainability! Indeed brought us all several hours of happiness
- October 2023: The yearly Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium held in National Renewable Energy Labs in Golden, CO saw participation by our ultrafast physics group (Jason, Greg and Alex) and we presented a poster on our collaborations with Institute for Energy Conversion and University of Florida. We managed to track down our friend Jesse for a night of fantastic Lebanese food at Ali Baba’s
- July 2023: Jesse Starger has taken on an interneship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) for his work in crystallization kinetics of perovskite photovoltaic absorbers. We wish him all the best of luck and safe travels on this wonderful adventure. We cant wait to see the amazing photos of the Colorado wilderness.
- June 2023: Greg Manoukian presented his research on quantifying recombination dynamics in CdSeTe PVs at the annual photovoltaics specialist conference (PVSC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was awarded the best student paper in the Chalcogenides area. Congratulations Greg, and your roommate did a great job with your haircut.
- April 2023: Greg Manoukian (’24) presented his research as an invited speaker to University of Delaware’s Institute of Energy Conversions monthly seminar.
- Jan-March 2023: PhD student Caroline Cameron spent two months pursuing new directions to her research with Dr. Sabrina Spatari, professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, located in Haifa, Israel. Dr. Spatari is an expert in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and is an incredible resource for this project optimizing wind turbine material use.
- When asked about the her excitement, Caroline replied ‘The most exciting thing I’ve done so far is leave North American soil for the first time and take my first trans-Atlantic flight. The most exciting thing I plan to do while I’m here (aside from some great research!) is to take a tour of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, and Bethlehem!’
- Safe Travels and best of luck! Pictured below the view from Caroline’s balcony.
June 2022: Bachelors theses in the Baxter Lab
- Crystal Jain defended her bachelors thesis on solution processed perovskites. She will go on to work at Teledyne Scientific in California as a semiconductor process engineer. Congratulations Crystal!
- Jesse Efymow defended his thesis on solution processed perovskites. He will begin his PhD in chemical engineering at University of Pennsylvania! Come visit soon!
- Ryan Miller defended his bachelors thesis on solution processed perovskites and will begin his career at Kline Process Systems as a process engineer. Way to go Ryan!
- June 2022: Sherif Khalifa successfully defended his PhD thesis TITLE. He will be going onto a post-doctoral position at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) in Golden, CO. Congratulations Sherif, we are all very proud of you and have cherished our time together. Best of Luck!
- May 2022: Maimur Hossain (ITT Guwahati, 2022) has joined our perovskite processing group. Maimur’s research has been in MAPI thin films, and will be working on our slot-dye coating projects. We are very happy to have him with us. Welcome Maimur! A link to his google scholar is below.
- https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=R-_5HBwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&citft=1&email_for_op=gam87%40drexel.edu&gmla=AJsN-F4sOfcQKM9bC3z-VJqWcDJhmjdLXPE7NyKoF78J_RVe8P74QZKx9d-H72FpX0yfJy8PZXeDOHKHpMWl4p-8g7z2Oh-RcQ#
- August 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Kevin McPeak, the first PhD graduate from the Baxter Lab, on being awarded tenure in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University! Check out his research group’s website.
- July 2021 Mohammad Taheri successfully defended his thesis. He will start in August at First Solar. Congratulations Mohammad!
- April 2021: The Baxter group welcomes PhD student Caroline Cameron. Caroline will be co-advised by Prof. Megan Creighton and will investigate possibilities for a circular economy for composites from wind turbine blades.
- January 2021: The Baxter group welcomes PhD student Greg Manoukian. Greg will investigate recombination mechanisms in CdTe photovoltaics.
- December 2020: The Baxter group welcomes PhD student Jesse Starger. Jesse will be co-advised by Profs. Cairncross, Alvarez, and Fafarman and will investigate crystallization during solution processing of perovskites.
- June 2019: Siming Li successfully defended her thesis. She will begin a postdoc position at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Congratulations Siming!
